'Valhalla Hammering' nieuwe single Mantar

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In 2022 kwam de Duitse metalband Mantar nog met Pain Is Forever And This Is The End. Die plaat wordt nog steeds live flink gepromoot, waaronder op de aankomende editie van Desertfest in Antwerpen, maar Mantar heeft middels de nieuwe single toch ook alweer nieuw materiaal.

Die nieuwe single van Mantar is genaamd ‘Valhalla Hammering’. Het nummer, dat op de streamingsdiensten te vinden is, is ook voorzien van een officiële video. Dat resultaat, welke uitstekend bij het karakter van deze obscure band past, is hieronder te zien.

Reactie

Hanno Klänhardt zegt hieronder: “Valhalla Hammering is one of those songs that we instantly fell in love with but never made it on the album last year. It’s one of those songs that you do not write to create an “instant classic” but much rather in order to entertain yourself as a songwriter. It’s about 7 minutes long but we really liked the concept of having the most catchy, on point songs all on the last Album so it never really found its place.

I actually already knew it most likely would not end up on the album when I was writing it. In fact I wrote it with the plan already in my mind to release it quite some time AFTER we would release Pain Is Forever And This Is The End in order to present something completely different as a next move. It’s always good to cause confusion.”

Vervolg reactie

“The first two minutes are kinda a homage to our VERY early days when Doom as a genre was more important to us. You can hear that for instance on the last song of our first album. It’s a song called March Of The Crowes. People often said that slow SUPER heavy suited us well but we were also always very song orientated, so with Valhalla Hammering we accomplished the best of both worlds. Slow, heavy groove and a catchy, almost trippy hook. Also We have a freakin’ flute solo around 5 minutes in. This very well might be considered the highlight of our songwriting career.

The video for the song is just as trippy as the song itself. Based on a documentary by Amsterdam based artist Willehad Eilers aka Wayne Horse. Creating the footage was way beyond a regular video shoot and to be quite frank some of it better not be explained any further. Even if we wanted to, we can’t. Enjoy the ride.”

OVER MANTAR

Mantar is een Duits sludge metaalduo uit Hamburg. De band werd in 2012 opgericht door drummer Erinç Sakarya en gitarist Hanno Klänhard. De twee komen oorspronkelijk uit Bremen, maar zijn verhuisd naar Hamburg. Mantar betekent in het Turks paddestoel. Tot op heden heeft Mantar drie langspelers op zijn naam staan. De laatste is The Modern Art Of Setting Ablaze. Dat album is in 2018 via Nuclear Blast verschenen.